Resource Library
APQC’s Resource Library is your source for timely and topical information to help you meet your most complex business process and knowledge management challenges. Explore our ever-growing collection of more than 8,600 research-based best practices, benchmarks and metrics, case studies, and other valuable APQC content.
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Retaining Knowledge in the Supply Chain
With a wave of retirements causing a “silver tsunami” and organizations changing rapidly, supply chain leaders are worried about losing critical knowledge. Critical knowledge…
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Identifying Critical Supply Chain Knowledge
Critical knowledge loss in the supply chain is dangerous and unfortunately, all too common. When employees change roles or leave the organization, mergers/acquisitions and…
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In this article, you will learn about the current state of virtual collaboration, what it means for supply chain management, and five keys to leading more successful and…
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Social media has become a centerpiece of daily life, and employees increasingly expect to be able to use fast-paced and interactive social tools at work. Many organizations…
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Understanding Procurement Benchmarks and Best Practices
This collection is your road map to success in managing procurement efficiency and effectiveness. The content within will teach you about key performance indicators (KPIs)…
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Five Steps to Collaborative Relationships
To create strategic, long-term relationships, partnering organizations must look beyond the traditional me-first approach to contracting. In this article, APQC provides 5…
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Research has shown that many, if not most, of the world's most-used sourcing strategies are incomplete for modern procurement challenges. In this article, Kate Vitasek and…
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As organizations increasingly embrace a process-focused operating model, end-to-end global process owners (GPOs) have become a key role in the management and development of…
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APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking® in logistics indicates that organizations are still trying to find the right balance between carrying enough inventory and minimizing…
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Inventory Optimization: Show Me the Money
How can your organization optimize inventory to avoid excessive carrying costs and still satisfy demand? This article looks at the key components of inventory optimization as…
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Supply Chain Planning Performance Drivers
From APQC’s Supply Chain Planning: Blueprint for Success, these articles describe performance drivers for better supply chain planning results.
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Picking the Right Logistics Measures
Organizations are looking for the right logistics measures to track their performance and indicate opportunities for improvement. This article states how organizations can…
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What Are Procurement Best Practices?
Procurement best practices begin by standardizing processes and eliminating challenges like maverick buying. Marisa Brown, APQC Senior Principal Research Lead for Supply…
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2020 Supply Chain Management Webinars
APQC hosts supply chain management (SCM) webinars to connect with our members. Some calls feature internal experts discussing APQC's research and findings. For other calls,…
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Understanding Procurement Benchmarks and Best Practices
In this September 2020 webinar, learn from APQC's Senior Principal Research Lead, Marisa Brown, about insights in sourcing and procurement from recent APQC research. …